Word Meanings - ALLOTHEISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.
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- WORSHIPFUL
Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv. - WORSHIPABLE
Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle. - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - STRANGENESS
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). - STRANGELY
1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge - WORSHIPABILITY
The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. Coleridge. - STRANGER
One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered - STRANGE
estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. - WORSHIP
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. Of which great worth and worship - WORSHIPER
One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - MISWORSHIP
Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle. - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - SELF-WORSHIP
The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit. - UNWORSHIP
To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif. - ESTRANGEDNESS
State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne. - MISWORSHIPER
One who worships wrongly. - DISWORSHIP
To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. Sir T. More. - ESTRANGEMENT
The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.